Weekly Blog Reviews, Freaky Friday Blog Reviews

Lilly Mouse uses and recommends:

This makes our lives much easier - and it's free:

Click the title to submit a topic:

Skribit: Social Suggestions

Blog Sitemap: How to create one

By admin, at March 5th, 2008

Feel free to republish this article with a link back to this page. Thanks!

Create a blog sitemap
Creating a blog sitemap is easy and can increase your search engine ranking…

Many search engines either require a sitemap (Ask) or prefer you include one (Google). For more info in listing your blog on search engines, have a peak at this previous post.

Firstly

Copy and paste this code into a text editor like Notepad or Blocknote:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<urlset xmlns=”http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9″>
<url>
<loc>http://www.YourBlogsDomainHere.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
</url>
</urlset>

Your blog information needs to be included in the bold section.

- <lastmod> refers to when you last posted- <changefreq> will let the engine know when to update your listing

Secondly

Save the file as sitemap.xml a root directory (if you are not sure what your root directory is, have a look at the Web dictionary).

Previous Page

Related Articles

What's Next?

Digg! Digg this

The Bloghers online magazine -Lilly Mouse Del.icio.us this

Stumble this

Subscribe to Lilly Mouse

8 Responses to “Blog Sitemap: How to create one”

  1. Mike

    March 14th, 2008 5:06 pm

    Your site is a great discovery…thanks!

    About the sitemap - having saved the code to Notebook, where do I place it on my blog?

  2. admin

    March 14th, 2008 5:28 pm

    Hi Mike, thank YOU for popping in! :)

    The file for you sitemap now needs to be saved in the root directory.

    So, it should in the end have a URL like this: http://www.blogname.com/sitemap.xml

    If you don’t know how to access your FTP let me know and we’ll find a solution.

    Love, Lilly

  3. Mike

    March 16th, 2008 5:58 pm

    Wow, thanks, Lilly! I see what you mean - but I just use one of the blogspot templates. I didn’t have to get into the FTP thing.
    Should I create a new page through Bravenet, or whatever, and paste the text there? Or is there a better way somehow on blogspot ?

  4. ImagineImagine

    March 17th, 2008 2:42 am

    I’ve found so many articles on your site that I need to know about to continue successfully with my site. I need to know about creating a site map. Thanks for the great info. Also I know other new bloggers who are looking for free images. Your site is so easy to understand and informative. Now I just need to find the time to create the site map. Thanks.

  5. Mike

    March 19th, 2008 11:17 am

    Hi Lilly. I have just discovered that Blogger automatically creates a sitemap, so I didn’t need to panic!

  6. admin

    March 19th, 2008 11:22 pm

    :) Great! I was on the brink of setting up my own blogger-tester account to walk you through it. (think I’ll set one up anyway!) Ciao, Lilly

  7. ImagineImagine

    March 20th, 2008 12:18 pm

    I’m back again, so far, I’ve found three such handy articles, the color calculator and the site map and the free images.
    What a great site for bloggers! Thank you LillyMouse. LillyMouse will be my blogging advisor now.

  8. Mike

    March 28th, 2008 2:33 pm

    Hi again, Lilly.
    Did you ever test Blogger? I can’t help thinking that an additional, independant sitemap on Google may not be a bad idea. Or would that clash with Bloggers and cause problems?

Have Your Say...